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 David Kilcullen, "The Dragons and the Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West" English | 2020 | pages: 337 | ISBN: 019026568X, 0197619118 | PDF | 4,6 mb A counterintuitive examination into how, and what, opponents of the West have learned during the last quarter-century of conflict.  The Definitive Guide to Grails by Graeme Rocher , Jeff Brown English | PDF | 2009 | 633 Pages | ISBN : 1590599950 | 6 MB The rise of Ruby on Rails has signified a huge shift in how we build web applications today; it is a fantastic framework with a growing community. There is, however, space for another such framework that integrates seamlessly with Java. Thousands of companies have invested in Java, and these same companies are losing out on the benefits of a Rails-like framework. Enter Grails.
 The Dangers of Ritual: Between Early Medieval Texts and Social Scientific Theory By Philippe Buc 2009 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 0691144427 | PDF | 21 MB Central to current understandings of medieval history is the concept of political ritual, encompassing events from coronations to funerals, entries into cities, civic games, banquets, hunting, acts of submission or commendation, and more. ''Ritual?'' asks Philippe Buc. In The Dangers of Ritual he boldly argues that the concept shouldn't be so central after all. Modern-day scholars, gently seduced by twentieth-century theories of ritual, often misinterpret medieval documents that ostensibly describe such events, in part because they fail to appreciate the intentions behind them.The book begins with four case studies whose arrangement--backward from texts on tenth-century kingship to fourth-century representations of Christian martyrdom--allows for the line of development to be peeled back layer by layer. It then turns to an analysis of the formation of the intellectual traditions that contemporary historians have employed to interpret medieval documents. Tracing the emergence of the concept of ritual from the Reformation to the mid-twentieth century, Buc highlights the continuities yet also the profound transformations between the early medieval understandings and our own, social-scientific models.Medieval historians will find this book an indispensable resource for its insights into methodological issues crucial to their discipline. As Buc demonstrates, only rigorous attention to the contexts within which authors worked can allow us to reconstruct from medieval documents how ''rituals'' might have functioned. Ultimately, he argues, too swift an application of contemporary models to highly complex textual artifacts blinds us to the specificities of early medieval European political culture.  The Crowd and the Mob: From Plato to Canetti By J. S. McClelland 2010 | 304 Pages | ISBN: 0043201881 | PDF | 3 MB First published 1989 by Unwin Hyman Publishers.
 The Crash Course by Martenson, Chris; English | 2023 | ISBN: 1394168861 | 335 pages | True PDF EPUB | 9.96 MB
 The Consuming Fire: The Complete Priestly Source, from Creation to the Promised Land (World Literature in Translation) translated by Liane M. Feldman English | April 11, 2023 | ISBN: 0520383656 | True EPUB/PDF | 296 pages | 1.3/6 MB Uncovering an ancient foundation myth, and literary tour de force, obscured within the modern Bible.  Jeffrey A. Barrett, "The Conceptual Foundations of Quantum Mechanics" English | 2020 | pages: 268 | ISBN: 0198844697, 0198844689 | PDF | 2,2 mb In this book Jeffrey A. Barrett provides an introduction to the history and conceptual foundations of quantum mechanics. He begins with a description of classical mechanics and a discussion of the quantum phenomena that radically undermine our common-sense classical intuitions about how the physical world works. He then considers the physical and conceptual arguments that led to the standard von Neumann-Dirac formulation of quantum mechanics and how the standard theory explains quantum phenomena. This includes a discussion of how the theory's two dynamical laws work with the standard interpretation of states to explain determinate measurement records, quantum statistics, interference effects, entanglement, decoherence, and quantum nonlocality.  The Comedy of Dave Chappelle: Critical Essays By K. A. Wisniewski 2009 | 245 Pages | ISBN: 0786441887 | PDF | 2 MB Perhaps best known for his highly acclaimed, short-lived Comedy Central program Chappelle's Show, Dave Chappelle is widely regarded as one of today's most culturally significant comedians. Through the sketch comedy show and his stand-up act, Chappelle has offered truly memorable commentary on racial and ethnic tensions in American society. This book assembles 13 essays that examine motifs common in Chappelle's comedy, including technology and digital culture; race, gender, and ethnicity; economics and politics; music, television, film, and performance; and memory, language, and identity.  The Coastlines of the World with Google Earth: Understanding our Environment by Anja M. Scheffers English | PDF | 2012 | 303 Pages | ISBN : 9400707371 | 97.5 MB Far away shores, exotic islands or adventurous sea voyages - coasts are the destination of dreams for millions of people around the globe. Large numbers of people also call coasts their home; in many countries a narrow coastal strip is densely populated making these places vulnerable to marine natural hazards such as storms or tsunamis. The book Coastlines of the World with Google Earth aims to draw people's attention (within and outside of the science community) towards coastal sciences and spark interest for the extraordinary diversity and beauty of coastal environments.
 The Closed Society and Its Ligatures-A Critique Using the Example of 'Landscape' English | 2023 | ISBN: 3658401125 | 276 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 1.2 MB In the face of great challenges, utopian thinking is currently in vogue. The fact that utopias, with their ideas of an idealized target society, are not compatible with the basic features of an Open Society was already pointed out by Karl Popper in his book 'Die Offene Gesellschaft und ihre Feinde' (The Open Society and its Enemies) under the impression of National Socialism and Stalinism. In the present book, further forms of Closed Societies and the principal similarities (and differences) of their construction are examined. This is done by drawing on Ralf Dahrendorf's concept of life chances, in which he deals with the interaction of options and ligatures. The ambivalence of Dahrendorf's understanding of ligatures, since they restrict options on the one hand, but also give them meaning on the other, is resolved by a threefold differentiation: into ethical and moral, internally and externally directed, and explicit and implicit ligatures. While the former are capable of enabling life chances, the latter tend to limit them. Based on this, the authors elaborate on the landscape (side) consequences of various closed societies and how ill-suited they are for dealing with current challenges. |
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